Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-09-16

ing: "Look after that woman. Canopy
her with your wings and shelter her from
all HARM" and while you are seated in the
house of restitution and suffering, the
little ones around the room will whisper:
"Who is she? Amt she beautiful" and
if you will listen right sharply you will
hear dripping down through the leaky roof
and rolling over the rotten stairs, the angel
chant that shook Bethlehem. "Glory to
God in the highest, and on earth peace,
good will to men," Can you tell me why
haunts of iniquity on Christian Grand,
never meets with any iniquity? stood in
the chapel of Helen Chalmers. the daugh-
ter of the celebrated DIR. Chalmers, in the
most abandoned part Of the city of Edin-
burgh; and said to her as l looked around
upon the fearful surroundings Of that
place: aDo you come here nights to hold
a service?" ooh, yes," she said. "Can it
be possible that you never meet with an
insult while performing this Christian
errand?" "Never," she said, never"
That young woman who has her father by
her side walking down the street, an armed
police at each corner, is not SO we'll de-
Tended as that Christian woman who goes
iniquity, carrying the Bibles and bread.
God, with the red right arm of his wrath
omnipotent, would tear to pieces any one
who should offer indignity. He would
smite him with lightnings and drown him
with floods, and swallow him with earth
quakes, and damn him with eternal indig-
nations. Some one said: II dislike very
much to see that Christian woman teach
ing those bad boys in the mission school.
am afraid TO have her instruct them"
$780," said another man, II am afraid. too. {"
Said the first: II am afraid they will use
vile language before they leave the place. I"
Of that. What am afraid of is, that if
any of those boys should use bad word in
that presence the other boys would tear
him TO pieces, and kill him on the spot. {"
That woman is the best sheltered who is
sheltered by the Lord God Almighty, and
You need never fear going anywhere where
God tells you TO go.
1t seems as ii the Lord had ordain ed
woman for an especial work in the solicita-
ton of charities. Backed up by barrels
in which there is no -four, and by stoves
III which there is no fire, and by ward
robes in which there are no clothes, a
woman is irresistible; passing on her
Grand God says to her: "You go into that
bank, or store, or shop, and get tt the
man is hard listed, but she gets it. She
could not help but get it. 1t is decreed
from eternity she should get it. No need
of your turning your back and pretending
you don't hear; you do hear. There is no
need of your saying you are begged to
death. There is no need of your wasting
your time, and you might as we'll submit
first as last. You had better right away
take your check book, mark the number
of the check, fill up the blank, sign your
name, and hand it to her. There is no
need of wasting time. Those poor chill
dren on the back street have been hungry
long enough. That sick man must have
some farina. That consumptive must hove
something to ease his cough. meet this
the store of such hard-isted man, and I
say: "Did you get the money!" "Of
COURSE" she says, Il got the money; that's
what went for. The Lord told me to 60
in and get it, and He never sends me on q
FOOLS Grand"
Again: I'have to tell you that it is a
woman's specific right to comfort under
the stress Of dire disaster. She is called
the weaker vessel; but all profane as we'll
Us sacred history attests that when the
crisis comes she is better prepared than
man to meet the emergency. How often
| you have seen q woman who seemed to be
a disciple of frivolity and Incidence, who,
under one stroke of calamity. changed to
heroine. oh. what q great mistake those
business men make who never tell their
business troubles to their wives There
comes some great loss to their store, or
some of their companions in business
play them sad trick, and they carry the
burden all alone. He is asked in the
household again and again: What is the
! matter? but he believes it sort of Chris
tian duty to keep all that trouble within
his own soul. Oh, your first duty was to
tell your wife all about it. She, perhaps,
might not have disentangled your finances,
or extended your credit, but she would
have helped you to bear misfortune. You
have no right to carry on one shoulder
that which is intended for two. There are
business men here who know whatI mean.
| There came q crisis in your affairs. You
| while there came day when you said:
"Here I shall have to STOP" and you
called in your partners, and you called in
the most prominent men in your employ,
and you said: ave have got to STOP"
You left the store suddenly. You could
hardly make up your mind to pass through
the street and over on the ferry boat: You
felt everybody would be looking at you,
and blaming you, and denouncing you.
| You fastened home. You told your wife
all about the affair. What did she say?
Did she play the butterfly? Did she talk
about the silks, and the ribbons, and the
fashions? No. She came up to the
emergency. She quailed not under the
stroke. She helped you to begin to plan
right away. She offered to go out of the
comfortable house into q smaller one, and
wear the old cloak another winter. She
was one who understood your affairs
without blaming you. You looked upon
what you thought was thin, weak
womans arm holding you up; but while
you looked at that arm there came into the
feeble muscles of it the strength of the
eternal God. No chiding. No fretting.
No telling you about the beautiful house
of her father, from which you brought
her. ten, twenty, or thirty years ago. You
said: "Well, this is the happiest day of
my life. am glad have got from under
my burden. My wife don't care-I don't
care" At the moment you were utterly
exhausted God sent Deborah to meet the
host of the Amalekites and scatter them
like chatf over the plain. There are some
times women who sit reading sentimental
novels, and who wish that they had some
grand field in which to display their
Christian powers. o, what grand and
glorious things they could do if they only
had an opportunity! My sister, you need
not wait for any such time. A crisis will